Wayne State University Press: 405 books
by Desiree Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2016
While a mother can be defined as a creator, a nurturer, a protector—at the center of each mother is an individual who is attempting to manage her own fears, desires, and responsibilities in different and sometimes unexpected ways. In Know the Mother, author Desiree Cooper explores the complex archetype...
by Bonnie Jo Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2009
New from award-winning Michigan writer Bonnie Jo Campbell, American Salvage is rich with local color and peopled with rural characters who love and hate extravagantly. They know how to fix cars and washing machines, how to shoot and clean game, and how to cook up methamphetamine, but they have not...
by Jim Leach
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2009
A comprehensive account of Doctor Who as a television series and product of popular culture.
Personal Views
Explorations in Film
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2006
Robin Wood, the renowned scholarly critic and writer on film, has prepared a new introduction and added three essays to his classic text Personal Views. This important book contains essays on a wide range of films and filmmakers and considers questions of the nature of film criticism and the critic....
The Stooges
Head On
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
The story of seminal Ann Arbor punk rock band the Stooges, told through original interviews with the band members and associates.
The Nazis' Last Victims
The Holocaust in Hungary
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2002
The Nazis' Last Victims articulates and historically scrutinizes both the uniqueness and the universality of the Holocaust in Hungary, a topic often minimized in general works on the Holocaust. The result of the 1994 conference at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on the fiftieth anniversary...
The Jews of Hungary
History, Culture, Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
The Jews of Hungary is the first comprehensive history in any language of the unique Jewish community that has lived in the Carpathian Basin for eighteen centuries, from Roman times to the present. Noted historian and anthropologist Raphael Patai, himself a native of Hungary, tells in this pioneering...
The Politics of Genocide
The Holocaust in Hungary, Condensed Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2000
The Politics of Genocide: The Holocaust in Hungary, Condensed Edition is an abbreviated version of the classic work first published in 1981 and revised and expanded in 1994. It includes a new historical overview, and retains and sharpens its focus on the persecution of the Jews. Through a meticulous...
Time’s Visible Surface
Alois Riegl and the Discourse on History and Temporality in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2006
Expands our understanding of Alois Riegl beyond his role as an art historian to a pivotal figure in cultural theory at large, while placing his interest in history and time within the intellectual world of fin-de-siècle Vienna.
by Cindy Hunter Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
Harborless, a collection of poems informed by Great Lakes shipwrecks, is part history and part reinvention. The poems explore tragic wrecks in rivers and lakes, finding and forming artistic meaning from destruction and death. Each poem begins in a real, historical moment that Cindy Hunter Morgan transforms...
Untold Tales, Unsung Heroes
An Oral History of Detroit's African American Community, 1918-1967
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1993
More than one hundred individuals who lived in Detroit at some time during the period from 1918 to 1967 share stories about everyday life.
John Jacob Astor
Business and Finance in the Early Republic
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
John Jacob Astor was the best-known and most important American businessman for more than a half-century. His career encompassed the country's formative economic years from the precarious days following the American Revolution to the emergence of an urban-centered manufacturing economy in the late...
Father Abraham's Children
Michigan Episodes in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
The Civil War was the largest and bloodiest conflict ever waged upon American soil, and while no fighting took place in Michigan, both the hardship of the war effort and the heroism of Michigan men at war touched residents deeply. In Father Abraham’s Children: Michigan Episodes in the Civil War, Frank...
by Charles E. Sorensen, Samuel T. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2006
An unflinching eyewitness account of the Ford story as told by one of Henry Ford’s closest associates.